The excellent and informative Tasting Table blog has a recipe for XO sauce from Chapel Hill, N.C., chef Andrea Reusing. The first batch will require a trip to an Asian market to find several key ingredients, but after that you can whip up successive batches of the condiment/sauce fairly quickly to expand the flavor profile […]
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Maestro’s in Saratoga Springs will be serving dinner from noon to 6 p.m. on Easter Sunday, April 12. A four-course prix-fixe menu with choices costs $35 per person ($15 per child age 10 and younger, from a special Easter children’s menu), plus tax and tip. The fare includes duck confit crostini, lobster on a corn […]
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Jillians of Albany is launching a new value menu for lunch beginning Monday (4/6). Available noon to 2 p.m. weekdays, the menu features a half-dozen items for $6.99, including a soft drink or iced tea. Among the options are entree-size salads (chicken or steak) and sandwiches including grilled chicken, barbecued pork, fish and chips or […]
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The Saratoga Rose Inn & Restaurant in Hadley will be serving brunch and dinner on Easter Sunday, April 12, from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Fare for brunch, available until 2 p.m., will include bananas Foster French toast, eggs Benedict with crab Hollandaise, and Florentine sinach crepes; among the dinner options are exotic mushroom bisque, roast […]
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The other weekend, browsing at the Schenectady Greenmarket, held Sundays in Proctors Arcade, I happened across some 15-year-old cheddar cheese from Palatine Valley Dairy. If forced to pick a single style of cheese I could never live without, it would probably be cheddar (though blue would come a close second). Palatine’s 15-year-old is, as you […]
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The Stockade Inn in Schenectady will be serving brunch/dinner on Easter Sunday, April 12, with seatings from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The cost is $29.95 per person ($16.95 for children ages 5 to 11), which includes food and coffee, tea, juice or soda; tax and tip are extra. Call 346-3400 for reservations. The Stoclade […]
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Tosca Grille in Troy, which had been serving lunch on alternate Thursdays since the beginning of February, is now open for lunch every Thursday. Hours are 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tosca is located at 200 Broadway, Troy. Call 272-3013 for reservations. The menu is after the jump.
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